Sentence examples for surreptitious construction from inspiring English sources

The result is a shoddy mess of concrete, plastic awnings and tarpaulins, with an extra few floors or an extension going up in a day or two of surreptitious construction.

Others are more surreptitious.

Surreptitious protectionism is being deployed.

They used to be surreptitious.

Other counter-attacking measures are less surreptitious.

The result is a surreptitious richness.

He sees these contracts as "surreptitious" privatisation.

At least he hoped it was surreptitious.

Surreptitious means "taken by stealth; unauthorized; clandestine".

Their legacies include massive construction programmes for housing, highways and higher education; huge pension obligations to public employees; the highest minimum wage in the country; vast entitlement programmes; and an extraordinarily sophisticated approach to municipal finance through a Byzantine network of semi-autonomous agencies that allows the surreptitious issuance of ever more debt.

Mr. Tartakov admits to the surreptitious visits.